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Western Kentucky birder and photographer Tate Graham and a friend were on a mission to locate cedar waxwings on Nov. 30, and she shares her experience with her fellow Birding Wire readers this week. "We were in the territory of Barkley Dam, Ky., driving around and scouting. We had been looking for these elusive birds for a while when all of a sudden overhead in the treetops were hundreds of birds flying back and forth across the road … I grabbed my camera so I could see them closer and discovered to my delight, they were indeed cedar waxwings! We parked the car and grabbed our tripods and cameras and held our distance at first. We were terribly excited to get to see them so close and the multitude of them--there were literally hundreds. It was actually hard to get an image of just one bird. They were thick as thieves and devouring every seed on the tree. It was a dark, dreary day, so it wasn't the best photography weather, but who really cares when you find such as treasure? This particular bird lingered a bit … and that's the only way that I could have gotten one single bird. This was only my second time to get to photograph cedar waxwings, so needless to say, I was thrilled! Technical info: Canon 5D Mark III, Sigma 150-600mm Sports Lens, ISO 10,000, f 7.1, 1/1600 sec, 600mm.

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